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CO CK- OF- THE- J VO OD— COLIN 



Dutch authors, who had described so many iDeautiful creatures from 

 their possessions in South America, had never mentioned this 

 remarkable bird. It has now for many years been recognized as 

 liiqjicola crocea, the type of the genus, and is common enough in 

 museums, where its almost wholly orange-coloured plumage, as well 

 as its disk-like crest, render it conspicuous. It inhabits Guiana, 

 and the lower countries of the Amazons ; but further to the west- 

 ward it is replaced by the more deeply-tinted li. peruviana, and a 

 third species, the blood-red R. sanguinolenta occupies still higher 

 elevations in Ecuador. The genus is now generally placed in the 

 Family Cotingidse (Chatterer), though Garrod, on account of 

 certain diiferences in the formation of the ci'ural arteries, which 

 seem to be of no great taxonomic value (see Introduction), had 

 separated it from them ; but it may well be regarded, as by IV^i-. 



Sclater (Cat. B. Br. If us. xiv. p. 366) as form- 

 ing a distinct subfamily, Bupkolina',, the only 

 question being whether it is not as much 

 allied to the Piprldx. Next to Bnpicola he 

 places Phcenicocerciis, containing two species, 

 F. carnifex from Guiana and the lower Amazons, 

 and P. nigricollis from the upper portion of the 

 same valley. Each of these genera exhibits a 

 curious modification of the primary quills, 

 which in both the Families just named are 

 subject to so much abnormality. In the males 

 of Phixnicocercus the fourth quill is much 

 shortened, and terminates in a thickened horny process, while 

 in Bupicola the first quill is suddenly attenuated towards the tip. 



COCK-OF-THE-WOOD, see Capercally. 



CODDY-MODDY (etymology unknown), a local name of con- 

 siderable antiquity, and still in ' use for the Black-headed Gull 

 (Larus ridihundua). 



GOLDFINCH, a name for which no explanation can be offered, 

 unless it may have been intended for Coalfinch, but used so long 

 ago as Willughby's time for the Pied Flycatcher. 



COLIN, the Mexican word ^ which practically signifies Quail, 

 though the Quails of the New World have long been held to form 

 a group distinct from any of those of the Old. The name seems to 

 have been first printed in 1635 by Nieremberg {Hist. Nat. p. 232, 

 cap. Ixxii.); but he says he took it from Hernandez, whose work 

 was not published until 1651, where it dvdy occurs {Hist. Anim. 

 Nov. Hispan. p. 22, cap. xxxix.). Willughby {Ornithol. Lat. p. 304, 



^ The French Colin, an ohl nick-name for a Gull, given in 1555 by Belon 

 {Ois. p. 167), has no connexion witli the Mexican word. 



Phcenicoceecus. 

 (After Swaiusou.) 



